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... spirit of an educated age cannot altogether withdraw itself from . The old religions lie before us as the memorials of those plastic times whose fundamental cha- racter reposes on the creative strength of personification . The elements ...
... spirit of an educated age cannot altogether withdraw itself from . The old religions lie before us as the memorials of those plastic times whose fundamental cha- racter reposes on the creative strength of personification . The elements ...
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... spirit of the ancient natural science and the myth are prior to history , and the mysteries belong to a previous world , from which there have descended to us no evidences to prove whether they were the product of a lost world of ...
... spirit of the ancient natural science and the myth are prior to history , and the mysteries belong to a previous world , from which there have descended to us no evidences to prove whether they were the product of a lost world of ...
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... spirit . Through the poetic con- ception of these truths of nature the world of images in every respect took the chief place in the primeval times , when the conceptions , as it were , newly clothed , were em- bodied in the symbols ...
... spirit . Through the poetic con- ception of these truths of nature the world of images in every respect took the chief place in the primeval times , when the conceptions , as it were , newly clothed , were em- bodied in the symbols ...
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... spirit which is continually reappearing , as at present in the East , and particularly in India , and which regards every attempt at improvement as something futile to government : such a spirit leads directly , through the darkening of ...
... spirit which is continually reappearing , as at present in the East , and particularly in India , and which regards every attempt at improvement as something futile to government : such a spirit leads directly , through the darkening of ...
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... spirit had reached its highest point , and nature , instead of a dwelling - place and an instrument of the spirit , was become to men a dungeon , as to the beasts without understanding ; and , as St. Paul says , " Howbeit , then , when ...
... spirit had reached its highest point , and nature , instead of a dwelling - place and an instrument of the spirit , was become to men a dungeon , as to the beasts without understanding ; and , as St. Paul says , " Howbeit , then , when ...
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